Valeriy S. Voloshin

Valeriy Stepanovich Voloshin (1944-) was a Spetsnaz operative during the Cold War. Voloshin was born in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union, and he was one of the Soviet soldiers sent to Laos during the Laotian Civil War, assisting the Pathet Lao against the Kingdom of Laos and the United States. In 1968, Voloshin took MACV-SOG operative Alex Mason prisoner and handed him over to Nikita Dragovich and Lev Kravchenko.